Help Group<\/a>, a nonprofit that has served people in Los Angeles with autism and mental health challenges for 85 years.<\/p>\n\u201cWhat art does is it allows people to have a voice who can\u2019t communicate typically. It gives you an insight into who they are as a being,\u201d Susan Berman, CEO of Help Group, told LAist.<\/p>\n
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Berman said the prime Abbott Kinney real estate was a gift from a board member. Help Group is using the square footage for a community space and gallery to feature neurodivergent artists.<\/p>\n
Among the artists included is Noah Remis, 15, whose piece \u201cI <3 NY\u201d incorporates watercolor over the titles of famous musicals like Hamilton and Sweeney Todd.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose are different musicals that I know and love,\u201d Remis said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome I saw on Broadway. Just so you know, I also put Cats on there just to anger my dad,\u201d he joked. He said his dream is to act on Broadway.<\/p>\n
Noah\u2019s dad, Rich Remis, might not be a fan of Cats, but he is a fan of seeing his son\u2019s love of theater expressed in his painting.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo hang it up in a gallery with everyone else\u2019s work, it just really adds a special weight to it that I think is certainly not lost on Noah,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Noah, in response, added: \u201cDon\u2019t get emotional.\u201d<\/p>\n
Noah said he hopes other kids will be inspired by his work and maybe even take it home.<\/p>\n
How to visit<\/p>\n
\u201cLimitless\u201d
Location: 1639 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice
Hours: Thursday\u2013Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.<\/p>\n
Berman, who\u2019s been with Help Group for more than four decades, said she has big plans for the space, which opened last week.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur plan is for the community to see the gifts that our neurodiverse artists have, not only in their art but as human beings,\u201d Berman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new galley showcasing young neurodivergent artists has opened in Venice Robert Garrova has more. A new space…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[357894,1029,228,226,227,1490,357897,229,88,20972,357895,3031,182458,357896,15741],"class_list":["post-845857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-abbott-kinney","tag-art","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-autism","tag-autistic","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-gallery","tag-help-group","tag-los-angeles","tag-neurodivergent","tag-neurodiverse-art","tag-venice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}